View from the bridge

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[…] announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and Reform have all said that they want to work across- Billie Sol Estes: A Texas Legend, on-line at or < http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/incoming/ BillySolEstesATexasLegendbyBillieSolEstes(2005 ).pdf> 42 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] and held by the majority of the population.14 GDI is the perfect expression of what John Gray recently described: Suspending freedom of expression for the sake of liberal values may seem a paradox, but it is not illogical. For latter-day hyper-liberals, free speech is useful only so long as it advances a progressive project. […]

View ffrom Bridge 89

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[…] Trump’s Attorney General William Barr who poo-poohed it: nothing to see here, folks, move along. Banyan quotes a slew of American writers and intellectuals, many on the liberal left, who accepted Barr’s summary of the report without actually reading the report itself. Banyan notes this very odd incident as . . . a unique […]

Friends of Israel

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] founded in Geneva in 1936, which has long been staunchly Zionist. . . . Reflecting the private sector orientation of much contemporary Zionist activism in the neo liberal era, the Global Coalition for Israel’s key architects called it ‘a public-private partnership’. The World Jewish Congress described it as ‘a cooperative and collaborative global approach […]

Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] which do not necessarily meet, or which do not even derive from the same first principles. If that were the case, then almost all mainstream left and liberal discourse in the US would collapse. Bruce Cumings wrote a long history of the origins of the Korean War3 in which he said clearly that there […]

View from the bridge

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[…] announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and Reform have all said that they want to work across- Billie Sol Estes: A Texas Legend, on-line at or < http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/incoming/ BillySolEstesATexasLegendbyBillieSolEstes(2005 ).pdf> 32 […]

Off Message, and, Standing for Something

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of how it was that once in power Blair and Brown ‘essentially maintained the old Thatcherite consensus’ and transformed the Labour Party from ‘being a force for liberal social democracy to one of illiberal neo-conservatism’. While there are some telling anecdotes, he is not really successful in explaining the zombiefication of the Labour Party. […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] and held by the majority of the population.14 GDI is the perfect expression of what John Gray recently described: Suspending freedom of expression for the sake of liberal values may seem a paradox, but it is not illogical. For latter-day hyper-liberals, free speech is useful only so long as it advances a progressive project. […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] called ‘the European rescue of the nation-state’. This nation-state was the post-war model, committed to full employment, economic growth, modernization and social justice. It was not the liberal version (basically a customs union) favoured by the US Government, which viewed the 1951 Coal and Steel Treaty with a mixture of relief (because it brought […]

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[…] Trump’s Attorney General William Barr who poo-poohed it: nothing to see here, folks, move along. Banyan quotes a slew of American writers and intellectuals, many on the liberal left, who accepted Barr’s summary of the report without actually reading the report itself. Banyan notes this very odd incident as . . . a unique […]

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